Chennai: The Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai on Tuesday rolled out its 60,000th coach. In 2018-19, the ICF produced 3,262 coaches, thus making it the world’s largest rail coach-manufacturing unit, said Mr. Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board, on a visit to ICF. Also Read : ‘Train 18’ for exports [...]

Continuing the commitment towards improving passenger comfort and satisfaction, Indian Railways planned to upgrade 140 rakes of ICF trains in 2018-19 under a scheme called ‘Project Utkrisht‘. Out of these, Western Railway was allotted 20 rakes for upgradation in 2018-19. Western Railway upgraded 19 rakes by March 2019, which was [...]

Metro is proving to be a true Humsafar for Lucknow commuters who are reeling under scorching heat. With providing comfortable ride, Lucknow Metro is also conscious of its responsibilities towards its passengers. In the wake of heat waves and rising temperatures, passengers sometimes have to face health issues such as [...]

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Chennai: The Integral Coach Factory (ICF), Chennai on Tuesday rolled out its 60,000th coach. In 2018-19, the ICF produced 3,262 coaches, thus making it the world’s largest rail coach-manufacturing unit, said Mr. Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board, on a visit to ICF. Also Read : ‘Train 18’ for exports after meeting domestic demand: Mr. Rajesh Agrawal More Information: It is a proud moment for ICF and for the entire nation, he added. He said,”In the current year, we expect the ICF to cross manufacturing nearly 4,000 coaches. The growth [...]

Continuing the commitment towards improving passenger comfort and satisfaction, Indian Railways planned to upgrade 140 rakes of ICF trains in 2018-19 under a scheme called ‘Project Utkrisht‘. Out of these, Western Railway was allotted 20 rakes for upgradation in 2018-19. Western Railway upgraded 19 rakes by March 2019, which was the highest in the Indian Railways. Also Read : General Manager Northern Railway Inspects Diesel Locomotive Shed, Tughlakabad The 20th rake was upgraded in the month of April ’19 and 3 more rakes have been upgraded in May 19. Thus, total [...]

Sh. T. P. Singh, General Manager, Northern Railway, accompanied by Sh. S. C. Jain, Divisional Railway Manager, Delhi, & Principal Head of Departments of Northern Railway today inspected Diesel Locomotive Shed, Tughlakabad, a premier Locomotive Maintenance Centre over Indian Railways and in its 50th year of Operations. Also Read : ADB to Provide $750 Million Loan to India for Railway Track Electrification The General Manager was given a detailed presentation at the shed regarding innovations and maintenance practices being adopted. He later inspected the various locomotive equipments test setups prominent being [...]

Metro is proving to be a true Humsafar for Lucknow commuters who are reeling under scorching heat. With providing comfortable ride, Lucknow Metro is also conscious of its responsibilities towards its passengers. In the wake of heat waves and rising temperatures, passengers sometimes have to face health issues such as dehydration and dizziness. On Wednesday, 22nd May, 65-year-old Ms. Gyanwati of Sarojini Nagar fell unconscious while climbing from an escalator in Amausi Metro station at noon. Lady Guard Sangeeta Devi, who was stationed there, gave her first aid and she soon was [...]

The MMRDA (Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority) planning to provide common interchange station for DN Nagar-Mankhurd Metro 2B and Wadala-Kasarvadavali Metro 4 corridors. This will provide huge convenience to commuters travelling on these lines, said an senior MMRDA official. Also Read : MMRDA plans Transit Oriented Development (TOD) along Mumbai Metro corridors More Information: As per the original plans, Eastern Express Highway (EEH) station was marked as the interchange station on Metro-2B corridor and Siddharth Colony station for Metro-4 corridor. Both the stations near the intersection of EEH and SG Barve [...]

The NMRC (Noida Metro Rail Corporation) will organise a special camp for issuing the smart cards for Noida Special Economic Zone (NSEZ) employees and entrepreneurs on Friday, officials said. The NSEZ, spread on a 310 acre of land in Sector 81, was set up in 1985 and houses several private companies and start-ups with thousands of people working in the area, they said. Also Read : Delhi Metro’s Magenta Line will be connected with Aqua Line of Noida Metro Smart Cards- The NMRC said,”The camp on May 24 is being organised [...]

Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed an agreement to provide $750 million equivalent in Indian rupee long-term financing to electrify railway tracks in India, it said. It is the largest single non-sovereign loan ever committed by ADB to IRFC to fund the railways track electrification project, ADB said in a release. Also Read : Doubling & Electrification of Guntur-Tenali Railway line completed More Information: It said, as part of a broad modernisation programme that will help India’s railway sector transition to electric power and away from dependence on fossil fuels. Concurrently, [...]

Thiruvananthapuram: The semi high-speed rail corridor between Thiruvananthapuram and Kasaragod has been found feasible and financially viable, according to a survey. The survey for the semi high-speed rail corridor project completed by Paris-based Systra. Also Read : NHSRCL Invites Bids for Tunnelling Works on Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project More Information: The project can recoup 6% of its cost every year especially after linking Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi airports. Such is the alignment of the route that only minimum rehabilitation is required and only 1,200 hectare land is required. The line to [...]

The demand for coaches of India’s state-of-the-art ‘Train 18‘ from some Southeast Asian and South American countries will be considered after meeting the domestic need, Mr. Rajesh Agrawal, Member (Rolling Stock), Railway Board said. Also Read : Vande Bharat Express: Train 18 to to operate on 3 new routes More Information: Rolling out the 60,000th coach manufactured at the Integral Coach Factory, Chennai, Mr. Agrawal said ICF would roll out 40 Train 18 trainsets in the immediate future. He said,”Some of the Southeast Asian and South American nations have evinced interest [...]

Almost every one of us has travelled via railways at least once in a lifetime. But have you ever wondered where and how the trains and their coaches are manufactured? The Indian railways have been accumulating the manufacturing capacity from its three factories- Integral Coach Factory, Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala (Punjab) and the New Factory: Modern Coach Factory, Rae Bareli (Uttar Pradesh). The first coaches manufacturing factory [...]

These are exciting times in railway signalling, so much better than they were thirty years ago. When I started my signalling career in the early 1990s, signalling for mainline railways had a bad reputation, for three reasons. One, most people in the rail industry considered signalling a “secret society” or “dark art” with its own language and vocabulary that was foreign and nearly impossible to understand for normal non- signalling folks. [...]

In the modern day, computers, electronic gadgets internet, Wi-Fi, online services, social media, e-learning and alike have attained immense popularity. Almost everyone is glued to the screens of their smartphones, tabs, and laptops; either studying, playing games, connecting with friends on social media or busy in some work. Gadgets and quick learning have become part of our day-to-day lives. Addition to this is the machine learning that has been incorporated [...]

Author : Mr. Chandan Kumar P As a Rail engineer with impressive 10+ years working experience in Rolling Stock + Signalling, Design Engineering, Verification & Validation, System Specification, Testing & Commissioning, Maintenance, Modifications, Troubleshooting for various projects Introduction : The refurbishment of rolling stock at end of nominal life, including the risks and opportunities of life extension beyond initial design life. Metros have been gaining increasingly significant benefits through [...]

Employs over 90,000 women: Indian Railways is the largest employer in India with around 13,00,000 ( 1.3 million ) employees of which over 90,000 are Women as of 2017. First women driver in Railway: Surekha Shankar Yadav is the country’s first female to drive train in India. She joined Indian railways in 1988. Women to operate prestigious trains: An all women squad is managing operations of The Deccan Queen Express, [...]

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